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Petrophile vana Cranfield & T.Macfarlane

Reference
Nuytsia 17:154-157, Fig.1 (2007)
Conservation Code
Priority One
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Shrub, to 1.5 m high. Shallow, white, gritty clay-soil pockets, laterite. Breakaways.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 12 May 2008
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 0.4-1.7 m high; branchlets glabrous. Leaves alternate, 20-60 mm long, 1-2 mm wide, glabrous; lamina terete, entire, straight or curved, scabrous, apex acute, 1-1.3 mm long. Inflorescences not viscid, white or cream. Perianth 10-12 mm long, hairy, the limb apex hairy all over; pistil 10-12 mm long; pollen presenter fusiform, hairy, 4-5.5 mm long. Cone with persistent scales. Flowers in September. Occurs in the Eremaean (ER) Botanical Province(s), in the Yalgoo (YAL) or Murchison (MUR) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Priority One (P1).

C. Hollister and K.R. Thiele, 19 January 2024

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Murchison, Yalgoo.
IBRA Subregions
Tallering, Western Murchison.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Mount Magnet, Murchison, Yalgoo.